1. Voice and Text Workshop
Stromboli Project 2018
Voice and Text Workshop
June 13-28, 2018
Stromboli (Italy)

2. Program Voice & Text workshop
With Oliver Mannel, Leonardo Gambardella, Paula Langton and
Ken Cheeseman.
- Workshop designed for professional actors, students of acting and any person curious to explore connection with voice, body, language and performance.
- More than 90 hours of Linklater Voice work and text exploration with an international group of students.
- Text work on love scenes from world literature.
- Final performance presented at Stromboli Unplugged Theatre Festival
- Classes will be held primarily in English, with Italian translation

3. Stromboli
The Sicilian island of Stromboli is one of seven Aeolian Islands and among the most active volcanoes on the planet. Its dramatic black sands, lush vegetation, deep blue seas, breathtaking sunsets and volcanic rumblings offer an inspiring environment for the exploration of literature and theatrical texts.
The participants' voices and the texts they put voice to will resonate in Stromboli and its dramatically changing environment: a landscape of earth, wind, fire and water, evoking elemental forces.

4. The Linklater Method
The Linklater method for voice and text was developed by world-renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater. It consists of a progression of exercises that aim to free the natural voice from physical, mental, emotional and energetic blocks developed over the course of one’s life. The goal is to release a voice that is free, expressive, evocative and powerful. At the core of the teaching is the idea of a “classical self” - a larger self that is able to embody and express all human experiences and allows actors to metamorphose into any imagined character (human or otherwise). The Linklater Technique is designed to discover, release and strengthen the individual voice, in order to reveal this larger (or classical) self.

5. Teachers Paula Langton Ken Cheeseman
Program Head of Acting and Associate Professor, Voice and Speech - Boston University. 
Linklater Master Teacher. Actress in several theatre productions. Current research on fresh approaches to acting and new theatre strategies.
Ken Cheeseman
  Actor and teacher for over 35 years.  His work is greatly influenced by Keith Johnstone, Larry Arrick and Suzanne Shepard (The Compass Theatre), Andrei Belgrader and Kristin Linklater.  He is a Senior Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College.   

6. Teachers Oliver Mannel Leonardo Gambardella
Studied Voice and Speech at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany and is a Designated Linklater Teacher since 2010.  He has been teaching Voice and Speech at the Zurich University of Arts, Department of Performing Arts since 2001.
Leonardo Gambardella
  Professional actor, teaches voice for actors and acting in several schools. He also leads workshops of Linklater method for professionals who need to improve their public speaking. In his classes he aims to enforce the unicity of the human being acting on stage. He is director for the Stromboli Project since 2016

7. Stromboli Unplugged Theatre Festival 5th edition
June 23-30, 2017
An international festival of theatre, music and dance started in 2013 which takes place each summer under “the light of the sun and the other stars” (quoting Dante), in today’s words, “totally unplugged”, where the human connection between artists and audience is fundamental.

8. The Stromboli Project
Stromboli Project started in 2005, when the vocal coach Kristin Linklater and Alessandro Fabrizi met on the Island of Stromboli with 15 actors, and explored the potentials of the “natural voice” directly connected with the setting of Stromboli. Since that year, in collaboration with Susan Main, the group continued the research working during annual workshops open to professional actors from all over the world lead by internationally known acting teachers such as Kristin Linklater, Natsuko Ohama, Merry Conway, Susan Main, Ragnar Freidank, Alessandro Fabrizi, Paula Langton, Ken Cheeseman, Nuria Castano Gutierrez, Giorgio Rossi and Oiiver Mannel.
Stromboli Project is a space for training, research and production opened to performance of classical text, often coming from the classical tradition of myths collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The program is international and interdisciplinary and focuses on the exploration of relationship between body and mind when human voice communicates thoughts, feelings and emotions of a story.
Since 2013 the program is under the auspices of the Italian Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica “Silvio D'amico”
Stromboli Project was created by: Alessandro Fabrizi and Susan Main.
Directed by: Leonardo Gambardella
Organized by: FluidoNumero9

9. Details Schedule/Details: Classes from June 13th to June 28th
(Final presentation evening of June 27th)
Daily: 3 hour morning sessions and 3-4 hour afternoon session with occasional evening sessions
Total of 90 hours of class time
Maximum 18 participants
Accomodation:
Double room at Pensione La Nassa
Food:
Dinners will be served every night (except on days off) on the terrace of Bar Ingrid
Local grocery stores, coffee shops and restaurants will provide special discounts for participants
Participants will have use of the kitchen at Pensione La Nassa for breakfast and lunch
Travel to Stromboli:
From Naples: overnight ferry (Tuesdays & Fridays at 8pm)
From Milazzo: ferry/hydrofoil (every day approximately every hour from 6am-2pm)
Other options: flight to Catania, bus to Milazzo, then ferry from Milazzo

10. Fee Participants fee: 2.400 Euros.
Early birds discount: Euros if booked by January the 15th
The fee includes accommodation in double room and dinners
It does not includes travels, daily lunches and dinners on the day off.
Single rooms available for an additional 25 euros fee per night.
A non-refundable 700 euro deposit is due at the time of registration with the rest of payment due by the beginning of the workshop.

11. For info and registration: Leonardo Gambardella WhatsApp: Skype: Leonardo Gambardella